Word: saviorism
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...sign came in the form of a buzzer-beating miracle—a heave let fly 25 feet away from the basket, off the fingertips of the savior of Crimson hoops: co-captain Jeremy...
...markets and will watch to see if the pledge is enough to calm investors and bring down interest rates. If that doesn't happen in the next few days, however, officials quietly admit that Greece may have to put out a begging bowl to Europe. (Read "Greek Bailout: Savior for Euro or Temporary...
...Exile A telecom billionaire who has spent much of his self-exile in Dubai, Thaksin is an unlikely savior for a legion of bus commuters. He is everything a Thai farmer or construction worker is not: a pale-complexioned ethnic Chinese with nary a callus on his palms. (Abhisit fits that category too.) But Thaksin knew how to tap into a voter base long underexploited by traditional Thai politicians. His populist policies, which included heavily subsidized health care and microfinancing schemes, delighted the lower classes and helped Thaksin win the largest electoral mandate in Thai history. Economists have critiqued...
...both TIME and TIME.com, but the nature of breaking news means that most of my day is spent making sure the website gets fed with stories.) With the publishing industry in a depression, Apple's latest innovation (or feat of technological repackaging) has been hailed as a potential savior: the entry point for print to become a whole new medium while preserving its essential identity. Since TIME's iPad app was also debuting on Saturday, it would be the first app I would download. (Get TIME's iPad...
...into action. Zeus occasionally intervenes in Perseus's favor, while Hades materializes at Palace Argos in an inky cloud to threaten the city with imminent destruction unless Andromeda is sacrificed to the Kraken, a giant sea monster. In a way, the actors are playing the same opposing characters, patriarch-savior and lurid brute, that they embodied in Schindler's List, except that their pawns here are not the Jews of Germany but all humanity as represented by the people of Argos, and that these two grand figures are a side show to the crusade led by Perseus, the son Zeus...